People, including healthcare providers, typically behave the way they are incentivized to behave. Healthcare administrators, payers, and regulators spend a significant amount of time working to align incentives with desired behaviors and outcomes.

Consider the following hypothetical scenario:

You are the head of physician contracting at a small community hospital. The physicians who are employed by the hospital are paid an annual salary without any quality or outcome incentives. In contrast, area physicians with hospital privileges who are employed by medical groups are compensated for quality outcomes and are not paid an annual salary. Your boss, the director of contracting, has asked you to evaluate whether the hospital should shift its employed physicians away from an annual salary model and into a model that incentivizes quality outcomes.

How would you approach this request? What additional information do you need in order to evaluate what the hospital should do? Consider potential competing stakeholder values. Create a stepwise plan to respond to the director’s request.

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Reflection Journal: International Children’s and Women’s Health
Reflect on what you know about international organizations and policies, such as MDGs and Health People 2020.  Are they capable of making a difference in the arena of children’s and women’s health?
If you could make a succinct recommendation to these organizations to improve upon their approach to children’s and women’s health (one recommendation for each), what would it be?

Please support your statements with a minimum of two to three citations from peer-reviewed literature.

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